Emily Kaplan d’ESPN a rapporté plus tôt dans la journée qu’une poignée de joueurs assez importants du Seattle Kraken avaient clairement fait savoir à Ron Francis et à la direction qu’ils ne voulaient pas jouer dans cette équipe à l’avenir si Dave Hakstol était toujours l’entraîneur.
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RyNoDaHeaux
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Yikes
Guess that answers « did Haks lose the room? »…
I’m finding this news a bit shocking and surprising. That’s quite a statement to make about your coach, and I haven’t seen anything outwardly to suggest that things had gotten that bad behind closed doors.
It’s concerning.
This is really surprising to hear, and it actually explains a ton. Kaplan also said that Francis’ « did not want to make this move » but a « handful » of « significant » players wanted him gone.
This is why you have a process to consult people and bring in diverse opinions before making major decisions. These players clearly had data points to provide that Francis didn’t have on his own.
Just guessing on my own, it sounds like a lot of the players simply did not know what went wrong this year. ECH said this on their podcast and I agree, but if the players don’t even know what to fix or how to be better then that’s a pretty damning indictment of the coaching staff. I can imaging a guy who wants to win getting pissed off with ineffective coaching and giving the kind of feedback that Francis apparently got.
The knives come out, haha.
I think the golden nugget in that was the rumor of trying to steal Brindamour from Carolina. I can’t see it, but he and big Ron have a strong relationship.
There is a dump and chase joke in here
That’s actually more surprising than just hearing about the firing. Most of my « in the know » friends had talked about it like he was pretty well respected in the locker room and around the league (despite the knee jerk fan refrain). Locker room revolt this season?
Rod Brind’Amour would be a great get, but I think Carolina will move heaven and earth to keep him if he gets them to the conference finals again. Have a sinking feeling its going to be Bylsma.
Oof.
Seemed like the general impression was he hadn’t really lost the room as the season was unfolding. Perhaps that was a bit of a front and things actually weren’t going so well behind closed doors then? I don’t think a different coach changes much this season, but if the players disliked him that much then it’s probably good to move on. Being unhappy with that situation could certainly make people play worse, no doubt about that.
Flip side of this is I’m sure some of those « significant » players were ones that underachieved this season. This puts more pressure on them to step it up next season. If you had a bad year, say you don’t wanna play for this coach, get your way, and then go on to suck again….. looks pretty bad on you I think. Especially if the GM didn’t really see the coach as the issue originally.
Pure speculation but I think an additional factor was a new coach for free agent and trade acquisitions this off season.
If Hak had lost the room or is generally unliked by players then we were never going to have a shot at Reinhart or Marner (to waive for us), etc.
Players talk amongst each other, agents talk amongst each other..hopefully this gives us a leg up getting some star power.
Perhaps Matty’s camp was also apprehensive to sign a long term deal with Hak still in the picture? There’s a lot of angles to consider.
earlier today somebody on my twitter timeline reposted a clip from … i think a game against the predators? or maybe the bruins? cant remember
but the camera pans down the length of the benches and the other team is all huddled around their coach, listening intently as he describes the next possession or whatever, and the camera keeps moving to the kraken side and everyone is just sort of milling around
and…. yeah it was a bad look. i get you cant draw sweeping conclusions from like a 3 second film clip, but, still
Late in the season, after the Vegas melt down, I said that he lost the room on this very sub. I was promptly down voted to oblivion.
Glad Ron made the move. Looking forward to what he does with the cap space this offseason.
A few months ago I remember Ian Furness from 93.3kjr saying he had insider info that the locker room vibe was not good. He said a few players were not happy, but wouldn’t mention names till after the season.
Pretty easy to see he had lost the locker room at several points this season. Especially towards the end when the playoffs were slipping away.